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I cannot find on their website what the rate of pay is. And do you know of any other affiliate programs you can put on your website? Thanks for answering.

You won't know how much is the per click amount because the amount depends on the bid placed by the advertiser.

Aside from the bidding, there is what is called smartpricing that adjusts the price paid by the advertiser depending on the nature of the page. No one knows how this actually works. But it can affect the pricing of the ads on your site. If the advertiser paid for $0.50/click - but your site is smartpriced - then the cost may be discounted lower (e.g. $0.25). So you may try to develop a site based on high paying keywords but if smartpricing gets to you, then you may not get as much per click as what you are expecting from your keywords.

Here is Google's explanation of smart pricing https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9562&query=smart+pricing&topic=0&type=f

Would Adsense be worthwhile? It depends on a lot of factors and how you turn those factors to benefit you. I earn 5-digits a month from Adsense so it is DEFINITELY WORTHWHILE for me. If you're earning pennies from the program, then either you don't know how to maximize it or your site is better suited to run a different type of program

In terms of earning money on Adsense, your mileage varies. One website with 10,000 uniques a day can earn $50 a month while another may earn $5,000. It is not easy to predict how much you will earn from Adsense. The only way you can learn about how your site will perform with Adsense is through trying it.

Adsense is not like other affiliate programs when you know how much exactly you will earn.

If you are looking for affiliate programs, here are some places to look

Commission Junction http://www.cj.com
Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com
Linkshare http://www.linkshare.com
Amazon Associates Program http://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/associates/join

and do you have some experience with them, do they pay when they are suppose to?

Idea here… If your website has a very specific niche, target audience. Run a banner advertising your AD real state, taking to a page with basic stats data and your media kit. After a few weeks take a look at the numbers see if there was interest at all or you might even start getting leads… good luck

Ok, i'm already Pay Per Click advertising on Google Adwords and Yahoo! PPC. Now i wan't to Advertise on MSN Search, but i don't know if my Ads will appear on Live Search or MSN Search ? Is it Live Search and MSN Search the same ? thats my question.

Good luck with that, MSN AdCenter is so hard to use. It is really an awful interface. I dread logging in (thats if I can even log in at all) I had to use firefox since nothing was showing up with IE7. I did not get many clicks or impressions using them even though my bids were high.
And yes Live search / MSN are the same.

Seeking to automate and optimize my PPC campaigns on Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc., and utilize either a service or a software that will allow me to manage all campaigns from one set of keywords with a centralized budgeting tool. Does anyone have any experience with such tools? I've looked at Atlas One Point in the past.

By far the best is Efficient Frontier http://www.efrontier.com/efficient_frontier/

can some one tell me which company can i pay so that they place my site in the top ten of search engines and i do not mean ppc or adwords

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?...... and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain "generic" keywords, then anyone using
such "generic" queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, "Who's my end user - is he on dialup or
DSL?" And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the "Title" metag which
should consist of no more than 60 characters separated
by commas. The phrase "Welcome to Croam" is not specific nor does it lead to a particular brand or URL. The "Title" should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the "Title" is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the "Description" which is
usually up to 41 words to form a complete paragraph which
best describes one's goods and services. The current Description is still short of 41 words and should be expanded. It is not merely a list.

And the very last category - "Keywords" are also
somewhat limited to 15 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. The current entries are counted in excess of 15 entries and should be shortened drastically. Again, the excess entries can be included within the Description metatag. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as "spamdexed entries" which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
"Spamdexing" when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google's spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on
Google.com: Begin with the very "generic" search query
"sandwiches downtown los angeles," taking note to not
abbreviate Los Angeles to "LA" and of course, leave
out the parentheses ("). It will bring up some 2.4
million+ search results. Check out where "Nazos.net"
is ranked. It's on the SECOND FRONT [ranked 15]!
Again, Nazos.net's high web presence was achieved by
proper web design and placement of relevant metatags
according to Google's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

How do I go about identifying profitable niches in Internet Marketing?

We all know some of the popular niches like golf and fly fishing. But these categories are too competitive with incumbents who have already paved the way into the market place.

I realized that it may not be that simple to just get into the common niche markets like this and be successful.

The hurdles are also stacked against you in terms of bidding for PPC adwords (going to be costly) and even if you were to do JVs, I believe these relevant JV partners would already have been approached by earlier incumbents.

Finally, the crux of the matter is also the lack of a frim understanding for most people in terms of the kind of tools that one can use to scan the market place for niche keywords which leads to an understanding of the types of market demand in question.The keyword results is based on what base keyword you type in and hence limited to that one category of choice for eg golf.

the tool to use is called word tracker http://www.wordtracker.com/ — it is supposed to deliver what keywords are actually been searched. it has a limited free version / demo .. they say if you are serious about internet marketing you gotta use this tool.
It is exactly targeted to niche keywords identification.

I think I am wasting my money with this new website that I found that delivers hits to my website. I would prefer to use google adwords because you Pay per click, but unfortunatley I do not have a credit card and Google doesn't accept paypal as a payment method. Does anyone know of a traffic service with a similar structure as a pay per click system like Google. I don't want to pay for useless traffic that get cycled back into my websites. These are mostly hits and rarely visitors and many repeat visitors in one day. Please help, I don't want to waste money anymore, I want to make money.

Here is the website I am refering to, have a look and tell me if you thinks its a scam too.

http://www.hitscheap.com

please dont use this..sounds like a scam…remember if anything sounds to go to be true online…it normally is.

I hear that yahoo search marketing (an alternative PPC) now has the option to pay by paypal

maybe you should use that?

Can anyone recommend FREE ONLINE ADVERTISING of superb quality, with extremely high traffic and public exposure, that actually reaches REAL people and not just other fellow marketers?

For examples, safelists only blast to other fellow marketers, and not to interested consumers, non-sellers, or members of the general public.

(Also, not interested in Adwords, Adsense, or PPC… been there, done that, paid lots, unacceptable ROI.)

Primary goal is to blast my affiliate income opportunity to a zillion new, likely future distributors and potentially interested recruits. I am a member of the PayDotCom.com service, which has the absolutely lowest fees (almost none at all). Yet, you still need to do your own promoting.

That's why I'm posting the original question above.

I realize this message is going out to the general public. However, please try and only respond to the exact details described above.

Thank you.

That's a million-dollar question; if there was a free online advertisement service that was as effective as your metrics are expecting, everyone would be using it.

If I'm to keep within the parameters you gave in your question, the only free online advertising you can do is viral. Viral marketing is a lot more work up-front, but if you're successful, its ROI can be amazing. I'm not sure what your business is and who your target audience is, but if you're serious about not paying a dime, I'd start considering your viral online options.

If you have the time and know-how, viral marketing can give you amazing ROI. For example, a few of my friends created Jobby ( http://www.gojobby.com ), an online job search and recruitment site. Their big sell that Monster couldn't match was using Web 2.0 to optimize the job seeker / employer pairings (using tags to define your job or job search). Anyways, Tony Wright, one of the founders, wrote a controversial article based on his experiences with website design ( http://www.blog.gojobby.com/?p=12 ). Attached to the thoughtfully-written article was his Jobby website. He then linked the article to several databases like http://www.digg.com or http://del.icio.us . When others began reading the article and reacting to it, the article spread like wildfire and, of course, everyone who read it wanted to know who this Tony Wright guy and his GoJobby was. GoJobby's hits rose exponentially within days!

Brian Fioca, the other Jobby founder, said that there is also a lot of luck and timing in viral marketing. "You have to hit the right chord at the right time at the right place with the right group of people. That's what happened to us, I think. But what it does come down to is if what you're trying to market is lame, it won't be viral." Sounds like you have to have the right product to create a buzz! But you'll never know unless you try.

What viral marketing comes down to is this: your hook must be entertaining, catchy, and interesting. Oftentimes this hook might have nothing to do with your product or service, but might simply have a sponsorship link associated with the entertaining content. According to Wikipedia: "These viral commercials often take the form of funny video clips, or interactive Flash games, an advergame, images, and even text."

Check out the Wikipedia link below to learn more comprehensive information about viral marketing if you're interested. If you've got the time, you've got nothing to loose! Good luck!

I work as Full time SEO. Looking for Part Time Opportunities. Have Releavant experience in Real Estate, Finance & Travel Domains. Also a exprienced PPC expert. Google Adwords Professional.

You can try ifreelance. I would write articles about what you know to create a buzz. You should have a site with your portfolio on it. This is very important.
Join message-boards and spread your knowledge. You need to label yourself as an expert. You do that by sharing your knowledge. People will come to you.

It works for me.

I am considering using a PPC (Pay per click) affiliate program and Google AdWords in order to generate a new income.

Basically… Get paid each time a customer clicks a link, but then pay Google AdWords for advertising it in the sponsored listings…

If the amount I am paying for the google AdWords is less than the amount I get paid by the PPC (Pay per Click) service… Then its a Win / Win situation.

I was just wondering if anyone knows of any legislation or terms and conditions that prevent me from doing so?

Many Thanks.

Smokey

http://paid2click.cybershimla.com/site/index.php?refid=404 has a much better system, it works like adsense, but any money you make can be spent on advertising.
Seriously, they are extremely impressive